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One Long Year |
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The sun is so dammed hot
I don't think we'll ever
Make it up to the top
Just keep going through
This
bush until we drop
There's nothing as wet
As
this jungle sweat
Bugs, blood, and grime
I'll sure
be glad when
It's the end of my time
Gotta be
careful, wires
Tangled with the vines
Enemies been
here
I can see the signs
I can feel them near
How clever they can be
Hiding booby traps
Where we'd never see
Trip wires like hair
Hardly
know they're there
Let me tell you what's real
I sure aunt no soldier
With famous nerves of steel
Whoever it was said that
Don't know how it does feel
Noise like thunder up ahead
Flash of fire so
bright
Screams echo in the night
Were I in that
spot I'd be dead
Still I can see flashes of red
Things are never how they look
The wrong spot at
the right time
And I've lost this life of mine
An
ambush will be all it took
On me, they can close the
book
You bet, I sure do feel fear
Let me say
this is one long year
Ears are ringing, machine gun
singing
Bullets are flying all over here
Yeah, it
sure is one long year |
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By Faye Sizemore
Copyright 2002
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November 27, 2011 |
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Author...
Faye Sizemore makes her home in the beautiful foothills of South Carolina with Grant, the love of her life, as well as three dogs, two cats, two parakeets and four nanny goats. Grant is a Vietnam Veteran having served with the US Marines in 1968-69 and is, of course, Faye's muse. Faye is deeply interested in Veterans' Affairs and Veterans' Causes. She is very proud of Grant and her poetry is an off-shoot of that pride.
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